Good for the penitentiary.
--The members of this valuable domestic institution can in truth now be said to be ‘ "doing the State some service"’--valuable service, too, and which, if faithfully performed, ought to entitle some of the component parts of the institution to an honorable dismissal from penal servitude. The convicts are making gun-carriages, wagons, axes, picks, flannel shirts, cloth for uniforms, army shoes, tents, wheelbarrows, and litters for the wounded — the latter of which we hope our brave volunteers will not stand much in need of. All of these articles are being fabricated for the ‘"Army of Virginia"’ as fast as busy hands and the most approved machinery will enable the men to do the work. The capable and gentlemanly agent and store-keeper, Colonel R. M. Nimme, we doubt not, is put to his ‘ "trumps"’ to keep the men going, but does it, and will continue to do so as long as there ‘"is a pea in the dish,"’ or Virginia shall want war material.
